Monday's w. The Monk: Doorways And Realms

A single thought can change your whole day. But what if that swing from peace to pressure isn’t random at all? We dig into a provocative spiritual framework: we live in a realm right now, other realms are around us, and “doorways” shape what we agree with, what we fear, and what we expect. That idea can sound abstract until you connect it to real life, real emotions, and real decision-making. 

We walk through Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3 and treat it as an invitation, not a theology quiz. Nicodemus is genuinely searching, yet stuck in the old grid of rules and external cleansing. We talk about why knowing God starts with God’s power rather than our performance, and how even our religious language can either expand the message or shrink it. Then we get practical and honest about discernment: if there’s access to heavenly realms, there’s also access to demonic realms, and the danger often shows up as control, guilt loops, and subtle negativity that feels “reasonable.” 

We also unpack one of the most challenging lines of the conversation: unconditional love with conditions is a contradiction. We connect that to identity, parenting, and purpose, and we explore why “love is a portal” isn’t sentimental, it’s directional. Finally, we land on daily practice through Brother Lawrence and practicing the presence of God, learning to “take temperature” and name what realm we’re in. If this hits home, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the conversation.

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Transcript

Welcome And The Big Question

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Welcome. Welcome to Mondays with the Monk. Brian, thank you for joining us. Appreciate you with the DM from last week, Brian. You crushed it. I mean, the it was just insane. So thank you for enlightening and just putting that passion button in there. Okay. So the Holy Spirit downloaded something to me. Brian. There's something you said to me ago. Maybe a year ago. And it really

Realms Doorways And Spiritual Access

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was there's no fear there. It was all excited in a little bit of like no way. We have the potential. It happened to another realm. The realm that we're living in this world of realm is one realm, and there's realms all around us. There's doorways. I want to talk about that realm that we as believers.

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One more time, because I think you got me there.

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Thinking about that negativity. You repeat one more time what he said in Nicodemus. And as and listeners, as as Brian

Nicodemus And The New Birth

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repeats it, don't look at it from the mind of man.

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Look at what the invitation is. This is great. The power of God is exactly that. Through his power, we know him, not ours.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

No, and Nicodemus is completely confused by this because there is no Christianity. There is no baptism. It's Jewish.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

This is pre this is pre baptism. Right. Cleansing. Cleansing, right? Yeah. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 10:35

We can go off on a t we can go on a tangent here. He also didn't say on

Why Jesus Chooses New Language

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this rock, I'll build my synagogue. Jesus didn't use Jewish terms. He wanted it to be from what my interpretation is, he wanted to be out. He wanted to be further. He wanted to go to the Gentiles. And if we use Jewish language, you and I wouldn't be having a conversation right now.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Keep going. Keep going. Ah, right, right. Oh, so

Rules Guilt And Measuring Faith

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the measurement being the commandments, the rules. Right. The symbolism. Guilty, guilty, guilty. If it's your will, Lord, if it's your will. Say it again. Wow. Holy crap. So that's the realm.

Spotting The Realm You’re In

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It's us. Of course. That's so good. I want to tap him. There's demonic realms, too, so you gotta be careful.

Heavenly Realms And Demonic Caution

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Be intentional. Be intentional, baby.

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When you say new, what does that necessarily mean? When you say new way, it's really the old way, because with the books that I read, right? The books that I read, the realms could be

Words Definitions And Reading Scripture

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clean. That was a matter of the call. The books that I read. The realms before them. This connection with God. And that's really the we've been watching the devil does a great job. I mean, it does a great job of that. We start with the dictionary. We start with changing terms. So when you read the Bible, if we read it like we did back in the ancient times, we we that's old, but yet new for us. Or is that the demonic pocket? So how is babbable the term bannable?

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The

The Demonic Pocket Of Control

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demonic pocket that we try to control. That we would relate to the Sheba. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

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That conversation we had this morning when you said that about Peter. I never looked at it that way. Like I never I didn't catch it where you shift from the download from the Heavenly Realms.

Peter’s Download And Satan’s Counter

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And Satan going, Oh yeah, watch this.

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Peter gets a down an upload from the well. When I hear that, I think hippies. I think you know that's not what we're talking about. Yeah, let's do it. What was it? What was it? I mean, this probably isn't a fair question without research. Is there a Greek word for love or Hebrew or Hebrew word? So Eros is the Hebrew word? That's Greek. That's Greek. Yeah, we should definitely do. A hole. Yeah. Okay.

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So Jesus says so. I'm just thinking I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted with that because my daughters and I had a conversation at dinner last night saying you are they're

Unconditional Love With Intention

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framing my love for them as conditional. Work hard and we studied hard. Like we had to prove to you as a women now. So you're supposed to lay down like a rug all day long. Of course, I still love you, but that's not your intention. Like that's not what God created you for. Sit there and lay down. Anyway, just connect an old dot with what you just said about God with us.

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No matter what, but he's there's intention, there's intentionality to why he created us. Yeah, I gotta remember.

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I gotta why don't we I know it's getting a little bit off, but we are being at love is a portal.

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Can you bring the audience to that? It does. Love is a portal.

SPEAKER_02 45:57

I think it's just my listeners just listened to that, and I'm sure a couple of them just hit a tree with the car. Sorry about that, gang.

SPEAKER_01 46:07

Oh man. It is from what you just said. Now where were they going? Oh, unconditional with conditions. Can we unpack that for two minutes? And then we're gonna go back, gang. We're gonna we're gonna wrap this full circle. Okay. Right, it can't be unconditional with conditions, because it's a maximoron. But I never looked at it that way.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

That's the dolphin. What's the dolphin? The the the magical. I mean, so I just uh let's wrap this up in three in another five minutes. We have access realms. And what I'm getting at now is not only do we have access to the heavenly realms, unfortunately we have access to the demonic realms.

Access Cuts Both Ways

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There you go. That's brother, it's a book, Brother Lawrence, guys.

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It's it's like it's a small book, right, probably. A monk from what the eighteen hundreds? Or earlier, sixteen hundreds.

Practicing Presence With Brother Lawrence

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Phenomenal book. I practiced that in Aruba.

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Out of seven days, I had like an hour I did it correctly. So good.

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So we have to be more conscious and pay attention to the reality that's in front of us. We've literally gotta just say, okay, this is heavenly, this is the mind, and constantly, I don't know, take temperature. Yeah, I am. Yeah, please, please, please. That's Brian's that's Brian's point way of saying no.

SPEAKER_01 55:30

Yeah, I'm sorry about the power washing if our audience here is it next door. I could. I was thinking I was gonna say that's the frequency. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 55:45

Brian, let's do another session on the Jacobs ladder. So the bottom line is we have access to the realms. There in we are in a realm at this moment.

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At every moment. We have

Moods Are Realms Closing And DM

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those are realms. Not mood, those aren't moods, those are realms, and you're in a mood because of the realm you're in. Wow. That's pretty heavy. We're not gonna.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

That's awesome, bro. All right, well, you heard that. DM me, send me a message, and I'll uh we'll bring it up in the next show. We had a heavy conversation this morning. This is a heavy conversation. This is not heavy. It's uh it's awakening and that's energy. So I gotta get used to that.

SPEAKER_01 57:35

Wow. So cool. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 57:41

Amen. So thank you all for listening. Tune in. That's Mondays with the monk with Brian Metzger in the Buddy Foy Jr. Show.